Invitation to the annual New Year's Eve ball at the Montana Club. The image pokes fun at the fire that had destroyed the original Montana Club clubhouse (1893) on April 27, 1903. The collar of the character's shirt reads: "Slightly disfigured but still in the ring." The seat of his pants reads: "Montana Club totally destroyed by Fire!! but still smoking."

Creator

Montana Club.

Genre

documents

Genre (AAT)

invitations

Type

Text

Language

eng

Date Original

1903

Subject (LCSH)

Montana Club. ; Invitation cards--Montana. ; Caricature and cartoons.

Rights Management

Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this item (which may be protected by copyright law - Title 17 U.S. Code) are available from the Montana Historical Society Research Center.

Contributing Institution

Montana Historical Society Research Center

Digital Collection

Publications and Ephemera from the Montana Historical Society

Digital Format

image/jp2

Physical Dimensions

1 sheet : 18 x 25.5 cm.

Digitization Specifications

Scanned with an Epson Expression 1640 XL, 24-bit color with 4000 pixels on the long edge. TIFF master images cropped, straightened, and sharpened in Photoshop Version CS3. JPEG2000 display images generated by CONTENTdm and Optical Character Recognition performed with Abby FineReader.